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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-22

ried.
Motion to adjourn until / p. m. next
day carried.
JULY 12. 1882.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: A.: $. Stewart and James NJ.
Smith, commissioners, and Kenneth
Harris, county clerk.
On motion the following resolution
was adopted:
WHEREAS, The valuation of personal
property of Geo. A. Turner and Tom
Turner for 1886 has been crroneously
entered upon the tax list be it
RESOLVED that the correct valuation
be placed upon said tax list and the
treasurer ordered to collect the differ.
ance in the tax.
Moved that the report of the treasurer
and clerk be approved and published.
Motion carried.
Moved that petition of s. =. Wilson
and others for bridge be laid over.
Motion carried.
Moved that road petition of E. A..
Bishop and others be granted and A.
T. Jones and Henry Marty be appoint
ed to view said road. Motion carried.
Moved that bill of Kcunett L. Harris
of 1872 for postage stamps etc. be
allowed. Motion carried.
Moved that the county clerk be in
structed to draw warrants IN favor Of
the judge and clerk of election accord
ing to statute. Motion carried.
Moved that an order of S7.1O he
drawn in favor of James Nj. Smith for
two days services as commissioner and
milagee. Motion carried. Moved that
an order of $21 be drawn in favor Of
A. S. Stewart for seven days services
as commissioner. Motion carried.
Motion to adjourn sine die, carried.
Attest: A. S. STEWART,
KExSzTr F. HARRIS, Chairman.
County Clerk.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-22

The Hot Springs of Dakota are att
tracting crowds of visitors this season.
Most OF them, as yet. are from western
Iowa and northern Nebraska, bat the
fame of the Springs is widely and
rapidly spreading. --Chadron Jowuol.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-22
DIRECTORY

BOARD OF coMMlssynssls.--A S. STEWART
\. A. POWELL, JAMES A. SMITH.
INSTRUCT ATTORSEY VI Eugene u. Norton.
oilERlTF.-H. A. GODDARD.
NEGiSRI:R OF DEEDS.-Eennct Harris.
TREASuNER.---W II Phillips.
AHSESSoR II. r. Chilson.
TRORATE JUUGE.--C. Eastman.
SURF. PUB lNSTRuc.-W.C. Thompson.
JUDGE FIRST JUDICIAL DlS1.--lioii. G. ".
Thomas of Desdwnod.
CLERK OF COUItT.-(. u. SAWYER.
JCS1lCE OF THE pE...ti:.-w. y. Wood,
Cascade. j. $. Jcncs Hot Springs. T.. Buck,
0lsichs. o. s. Trary. Cascade.
us. LAM. OFFICE.
kEofSrER.--.I II. Mhitcsdc Dcadwcod.
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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, as
well as the community at large, will de-
rive handsome revenue,
The distance from QGanah to Calves
ton is E38 miles, and to New Orleans $50
miles. At either point gypsum can be
transported by sailing vessels or steam
ers to the different ports of the United
States, SIS water freights ere especially
cheap; and as they will undoubtedly OBJ
tain more general use than heretofore
owing to the conditions imposed or rail-
rosds by the interstate commerce bill.
We csn look forward to the greater por-
tion OF the goods sold in this country be
ing transported by wat from the esst.
This will bring nj mher5 of steamers TO
Galveston and New Orleans who will
IookanXiously for return freights, and gyp-
sum can be shipped in almost all Of them.
and II they cannot or will not take 8 full
load, they will st least take enough for
b&llast, rates on which are always lower
thsn ordinary freights.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
BE CALM.

The good people of Texas should no
permit their ardor in the prohibition
fight to triumph over their judgment
nor their tempers to run away with thei
| good sense. No matter what is to be tht
result; no matter how the question ma!
be determined; no matter how muct
"boodle" may be sent to Texas to defea
the proposed measure; no matter how
many long haired men and short haired
women may swarm down upon US; nc
matter how much fanaticism and political
preaching may be injected into the can-
vass; no matter whether it is Republi-
can move, Independent move or Demo
cratic move; no matter whether il be
Christian or unchristian, moral or SIMS
ter, constitutional or unconstitutional,
impractIcable or expedient, right or
wrong, the outside world will look upon
Texas and judge Texas by the
manner in which she conducts
the campaign from beginning to
end. The utterances OF our public
men and the columns of our newspapers
will be looked to for reflection of the
sort Of people that compose our popula-
ton. Those who desire to preserve the
good name and fair fame OF the state
should be careful. If billingsgate is
used, we will be regarded as lot of
blsckguards; if preachers and priests are
assailed, we will be called blasphemers;
if bribery is charged, we will be esteemed
purchasable vagabonds; if the six
shooter is used, we will be called muir
derers; if rotten eggs, whisky bottles
and stones are thrown, we will be called
hOodlums; If free speech is denied, we
Will be called bulIdozers and tyrants.
"By their fruits ye shall know them,"
will be applied to US. We will be
Judged by the xtremists-by those fallen
leaves that are Whisked about by the
winds of passion-rather than by the So
Der, common sense of the great body Of
the people. If the question is accepted
as one upon which honest men may hon
estly differ; if each side will discuss the
question ably and intelligently, as it can
do; if newspapers will taboo vulgarisms
and rowdy expressions; if public speakers
will damn the proposed amend
ment instead of the preachers,
and if public writer's will use
the language of sober decency, then pro-
hibition may rise or fall, anti-prohibition
may fade or flourish, Texas will retain
her self-respect end the respect of her
sister states. The question has been
beyond its deserts. We have
lived without prohibition while others
have lived with it; we can do either. 1t
is not a matter of life and death to the
state, no matter of how much Importance
it may be to individual citizens. The
voters of Texas should guard the fair
fame of the state as zealously as they
would the spotless names of their wives
and daughters. Let the boon, il the
opinion of each, be as great as it will, it
is too dear when purchased st the price
Of dishonor.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

at present, but because she must have
them il the near future. Scratching the
back OF a sand bar in Galveston or spoon
ing out little soil at Sabine Pass will no
longer satisfy the demands of commerce.
II we cannot bring deep water to US, we
must build out to where it is There are
ways of obtaining deep water without
bribing Neptune with g mountain OF
gold, and they will be discovered. When
people really desire deep water more than
government appropriation and
are willing to leave prejudice and
purely local interest in the back
ground it will be obtained.
If the general government will not do the
work Texas herself will have to do it;
and if Texas will not, private enterprise
must Texas must build her own fac
tories also. Hauling wool and cotton
from Texas to the east and hauling the
manufactured article back again for con-
sumption in Texas is economic bias
phemy. II a farmer was found sending
his plow to New York for repairs when
he could have the work done ct home ne
would be considered very foolish. Yet
the same principle is involved and the
same absurdity enacted every time he
purchases yard of calico or g cottonade
suit. This the interstate law will force
people to stop, and for which the law
should be hailed with delight.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
Logncies OF tho Civil War.

General John Pope In North American Review
Perhaps the most unhappy legacy which
our civil war has left US is the genera!
neglect OF the obligations and duties of
citizenship. It is sin which is growing
daily, and which threatens soon to trans
Ter all the political business of the coun-
try into the hands of those least qualified
to do it. 1t is both strange and discour.
aging that the high privilege of taking di-
rect part in the government of ones own
county, privilege for the possession of
which crest wars have been waged and
whole countries laid waste-should have
come to be regarded with so much lndif-
ference that, like the air we
breathe, we trouble ourselves
to inquire neither whence it came nor
whittier 1t is going. Yet scarce twenty
years have passed since the mass of our
people were exposing their lives on the
held OF battle to maintain the integrity of
the government and the rights of its citi-
Lens- Among the foremost of these men
are some, many, indeed, OF the most
grleYous OF these sinners. Have we the
right to complain OF corruption in our
politics when the best of US subordiustes
the exercise this high privilege, even in
Its simplest form Of voting to occupations
and amusements which lead to no end
except personal gain or enjoyment? Can
we long satisfy our consclences or hope
to preserve our institutIgRs if we studi-
ously neglect or contemBtuously disre-
caro- privileges and dGHes essential to
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

Assuming that the interstate commerce
law is no longer tentative, but that it is a
fixed fact which is destined torevolutionize
the CoUntTy's commerce and remain an
important factor in our national economy,
it were well if Texas would look the
question squarely in the face and make
provision to meet the coming changes
The artificial and baseless character
of business and trade centers VIII
soon be exposed, and only
such places as possess natural advantages
can hope to continue in the enjoyment of
prosperity and progress. One section of
country cannot be taxed for the pur-
pose of enriching another; esch must
stand upon its own merits or fall by Its
own inherent weakness. The town where
there is but few inhabitants will have
sn equal chance with the one that num-
bers its population by the hundreds
of thousands, in the matter of
freight rates, and just and
equitable division of the expenses of
transportation will DE made. The pre-
ducts OF the country will not be carried
over circuitoas route for the purpose
OF giving any particular railroad the ben
eft of 'Tong haul" more reasonable,
sensible and rational method must be
pursued which will economic the forces
which lave been insanely wasted, and
trade and transportation will have to
seek its best, cheapest and most natural
channel. If the provisions of the law
are fully carried out there will be
no freight hauled over 8 line of
railroad when 1t could, for much less
cost and at less waste of the economic
forces OF the country, be shipped by water,
panies vii have to act as though they
hsd direct and personal interest in NOV
ing traffic over the cheapest and most
direct route. The railroads of the future
will be constructed in response 10 the
demands of The country and never to en-
able their owners 10 surpass rival
lines in the task Of eXtcrting revenue
from The public. To the economist, |
nothing seems more sbsurc than to wit !
ness the cotton crop OF Texas being |
shipped to New York By rail and |
then Teshipped to Liverpool by
weter when it could be Loaded at our own
ports and shipped direct. The expense
OF the motive power uselessly wasted In
hauling from Texas to New York must be
borne by the state. The great metropolis
collects her toll and grows rich on it.
railroads declare dividends and build
me palaces for their owners on
money which should rot be spent
al all, but should be left in the
hsnds OF the producer. The interstate
commerce law is destined to put final
perlod to this trayesty on common sense.
1ae claim that Texas has no
port facilities will be no longer
1enanie-not because she has them
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

THE municipal authorities of San An
tonic may not be legally guilty of con-
spring to suppress free speech in an
American city; but the bald fact remains
thatthe common council of that city passed
8 resolution TO prevent prohibition
meeting in public plaza. Morally the mu-
uicipsl authorities are guilty, for every
heodIum and tough in San Antonio read in
that resolution q license to break up the
meeting, and they broke it up. San An
tonic is not a desirable residence for
men who believe in American free speech
and American liberty. The municipal
authorities are bad eggs.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
THE WAR FLAGS.

The proposed return of the battle flag
held by the War Department in Washing
ton, to the various military organization!
north and south to which they formerly
belonged, has raised nearly as much eX-
element IN Grand Army circles as did the
firing on Fort Sumter at the commence
ment Of the late war. 1t has given al
opportunity to the gssbag patriots to adj
vertise themselves to the country anC
| they are taking full advantage of the ocCa
sion. General Fairchild, who has very
comfortable position as commander In
chief of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public, wanted to "palsy" the hand
head and heart that wrote, con-
ceived and sYmpathized with the
proposition. General Fairchild out
stripped all competitors for fame and fuss
He has had the pleasure of seeing himself
reported in the newspapers as being "pale,
careworn, excited and grimly deter
miGed." He has changed his tactics now.
He used to advocate and encourage recon
Citation between the Grand Army of the
Republic boys and those who had the
courage formerly to ''Iook into northern
gun barrels" but this last attempt of the
rebels to steal what trophies of war the
federal soldiers won from them has
aroused his honest Indignation and mar
tial valor and, if he cannot have the Grand
Army of the Republic renew hostilities at
once, he will resign his position and whip
out the rebels himself. General futile,
too, has been heard from. He is not so fiery
as Fairchild, he simply protests. He made
8 patriotic effort short. time ago to
arouse the nation because President
Cleveland had been invited to st. Louis
and, not being seconded to any extrav-
agant extent by his comrades, wss
somewhat more cautious this time. He
will doubtless feel bad now that he per-
mitted General Fairchild to distance him
in frothy vsporings, but he will have q
second chance likely. Sherman will have
to revise his speeches ia order to ex-
coriate the rebels for attempting to have
another 'frising." Fourth of J uly orations
will fnd climaxes innumerable in the
various phases of the question and pa
triotic poetssters and literary dilletantes
will find themes for song and story for
brief season, and for brief season only.
The sober second thought OF the nation
will readily realize and as readily &C.
knowledge that President Cleveland was
inspired by the purest impulses of pa
triotism in the matter. From the day of
his Inauguration until the present time,
every word he uttered and every act per-
formed lad the one object, tsntamolnt to
sll others in view, and that was the eb-
Iteration of all sectional feeling
Ind the thorough unifcation of
.he country. In these laudaable
Efforts he has sometimes incurred |
he censure of his own party friends. He
ealizes that he is not only the President
lected by the Democracy of the ,country,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
An advanced" Opinion.

The equal education of women, sag.
writer in the Cincinnati Commercial G.
zette, means her equality in the Learn
professions and her equal occupation
them. 1t means that marriage, materl.
and housekeeping are not to be her p-
fession. In the natural order this VI
evolve new and higher order of Wome
emancipated from ell that domestic ser
ice which is peculiar to her sex, and f
of all its impediments to an intellect.
political or professional career. In the
tellectual quality it may be like that see
order of the Athenian women in VIC
the statesmen, philosophers, poets
artists found nigh intellectual Soc
In the like AthenIan manner it may
gate the Offices Cf Wifehood, matern
and domesticity TO the order OF une
Gated women, who have kept to this PIT
suit, and whose capabilities for perP
uating the race in physical and men
stamina have not been impaired by
grinding out Of the years Of ripeu
Womanhood by the confinement and ne
Gus exhaustion of the collegiate stud.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

SOME of the most prominent men in
Texas will be here on the 9Oth, and Fort
Worth should impress them with its hos
pitality The editors of the state were
pleased; now let US capture the hearts
and minds of the politicians and people
who will be here on the S0tn. Our peo-
pie, Of course, are divided on the question
of prohibition, but there is untold good
to Fort Worth in favorable impression
on al visitors. All things are working
together for good to Fort Worth at this
time, snd this big prohibition meeting can
be made q means of advertising the re-
sources of the city to all Texas. The
unity of our people should be impressed
on our visitors.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
WAS THE UNION PRESERVED?

Chicago Herald: By its very condi-
tions the war for the Union, like all other
civil wars, was bereft of many of the
things which make wars between stran-
gers glorious Being g war for e principle
between people of the same race, with g
common ancestry, history and language,
it was war for peace rather than for ter
ritory, for power or for plumber. Without
peace and oblivion for the past the war
could not have been a success. Logical
II, therefore, everything which serves to
continue the struggle, TO revive the ami
mosities which gave it birth, or to es-
TRANCE the people of the various sections,
is in the line of undoing and setting at
nsught the achievements which cost SO
many precious lives and filed the re-
public with so much desolation and sor-
row. As the war on the part OF the north
was for the union and fraternity of the
states, the Eorth is estopped in reason, in
decency and in common patriotism from
assuming anG maintaining an attitude of
suspicion and of hostility against the sec
ton which it's csnnons forced to remain
IN brotherhood with it. This is the logic
of civil strife. It strikes some people as
harsh Snd by thousands it is never COM
pretended st ali, but it is as old SIS civil
zation, as inexoreble as The laws of ma
ture and as beneGeent as 62e divine will
The north did not eight the south for the
purpose of raising perpetual enemy in
hat quarter, but to destroy the old enmi-
" and to tear down the conditions which
it, thus giving place &c q newer
md better state of affairs whose result
you'd be peace and concord.
The excitement caused by the propo-
ition that the old Confederate fags st |
be returned to the southern |
tates has been worked up by the politi-
ians who want no Union, and by the un-
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

thinking who cannot see that whereas
they have have already swallowed the
camel they are now straining ct gnat.
No law compels the preservation OF
rnementoes of civil strife. These very
flags have been knocking around the
cellar and garnet of the War Department
for twenty years. From the earliest re-
corded time no enlightened nation has
preserved mementoes of civil war. The
Greeks fought each other IS vsliantly as
ever Americans did, but the trophies of
| battles won were of wood that they
might soon decay. The English
civil wars have left no legacy of
hate, because wise men saw that the
struggle would have been as vain to
victor as to vanquished if the passions re-
NAMED. So it must and will be with
America. The real benefits of the sscri-
fees of 1865 will not be gathered until
pickering shall cease and no occasion for
reproach shall be found in any man in any
locality.
Whatever may be thought about the
proposed disposition of the old Confed-
crate flags at Washington no thoughtful
person ct the north should object to their
complete and instant destruction. They
are valueless IS trophies of national
union in comparison with the stdpendous
fact Of that Union, They are valueless as
tokens Of national military renoWn in
comparison with the glorious facts of his
tory, whose pages are ever open. Even
sentimentslly they are of no value, for the
men who took those standards took forts
and cities and states, and yielded them
up again to the vanquished as soon as a
mere idea was accepted. The Whirl Wind
OF oratorical fapdoodle in which profess
sional veterans and office-seekers indulge
concerning the "sacredness" of these
grimy rags because thousands of lives
were lost in their capture" degrades the
war for the Union to war for rag, and
such it never was. Because 10000 men
fell in the bloody assaults on the i'm
Confederate sand-banks st |
Cold Harbor is that temporary fortifCa- |
ton to be cherished forever? No man |
with coat of blue now occupies it. Be
cause Sherman's army lost thousands Of
men in forcing it's way from Chattanooga
to the sea is that army to remain forever
in personal possession Of the great states
by its valor? Not a man OIL
hat mighty host is on duty there to55ay. +
It is the same with everything else. II
here is anything specially sacred to tIej.
forth in the few boxes Of old rags which
he War Department officials would like
o get rid of, then should every ragged
'eteran OF Lees vanquished army, every
AIDED horse, every side-arm, and every
mpty cracker box have been kept at
Washington at government expense
way from what Fairchild, in burst Of
tupld frenzy, is pleased to call "sacri-
ege." :
The fact is. the war for the Union was
success. There is q real Union. The
present administration, the first since
he war which has recognized the fact, is ..
proof of it. The Union will grow
tronger and mightier. The efforts of +
entimentalists and hot heads on either {
ide cannot prevail against it. Organ
zations whose leaders deny it will per
III, and the people, whose interests are
il centered in it, will preserve IT. T